Venue
The conference takes place in the ‘Cupolă’ and Multimedia rooms (4th floor) of the Braunstein Palace.
Access is through the entrance from Ștefan cel Mare și Sfânt Boulevard.
Adress: “Cuza Vodă” street, no. 2, Iasi, Postal Code 700259
Keynote Speaker: Răzvan Andrei Ionescu
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Abstract:
The recent development of NBIC (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Sciences) is giving rise to new expectations regarding human possibilities. The pressure of these new technological possibilities, expressed through the increasingly pervasive interaction between humans and machines, may induce a potential crisis in traditional values, driven not so much by new discoveries but often by ideology. We propose a brief evaluation of current human enhancement trends, emphasizing the interdisciplinary aspect, with a focus on the interplay between theology and technology. The reinterpretation, reconfiguration, and crisis of some traditional values, including knowledge, in the revolutionary context of intensified collaboration between humans and machines, raise questions about the fulfilment of human potential. What consequences might this have in terms of human fulfilment?
Keynote Speaker: Cristian Ploscaru
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Abstract:
Constitutional history, a methodological reference required for a better understanding of the historical features and political-legal character of modern constitutions, has given rise to interesting debates in recent decades. They have aligned mainly with the tendency to question the formalism of classical approaches, focused on the study of the universal political-legal principles and values that would have generated the constitutional texts, or on their content analysis, as normative expressions of the “rule of law”. The focus of the research shifted from the study of the text itself to a broader political, social and cultural context, along with the investigation of constitutional practices, following their development, application and public perception. The historical research of constitutional acts, which we will focus on in our presentation, starting from the origins of the modern Romanian constitutional idea in the first half of the 19th century, follows the constitutional configuration of some fundamental values and principles, from a comparative perspective at the European level, but also the historical motivations for adjusting and adapting these values and principles to the normative rigors of the legal order to be established by the constitution.
Keynote Speaker: Alexandru Laurențiu Cohal
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Abstract:
Self-perception and hetero-perception among Romanians from distinct geographical areas of Romania have not been an object of study for sociolinguistics so far. Instead, the topic of regional cultural stereotypes has been treated in press articles seeking easy topics and sensationalism, or, when specialists came into play, it has been treated mainly from the perspective of social psychology, paying attention mostly to cognitive schemes and behavioral patterns among all Romanians and less among inhabitants of different regions of the country. However, both the non-specialized and specialized approaches are very early to tackle the role of language in perceiving and representing the “difference”. The real deal here is the scientific analysis of the relationship between “how we/the others speak” and “how we represent ourselves/the others”. I will propose a new approach to the linguistic dimension of Romanian regional stereotypes, based on a sociophonetic experiment on a subnational scale, which will check out and deepen the relationship among the most recognizable linguistic features of regional speeches and cultural values, such as progress, education, wealth, urbanity, modernity, beauty, competence etc.